Zodiacs is a Sourcebook written by Thrythlind intended for use by gamers. The sourcebook contains a two-three page discussion of several of the more common gaming systems and mechanics along with discussion of pros and cons. However, beyond that, there is no mention of statistics in the sourcebook.

The book contains sections on:

Gaming Systems and Theory

Cultures: Six total: Bharita, The Golden Empire, The Hordelands, Ryouiki, The Star Republic, The Volstagg

In addition to the sourcebook, there is a short story book which is the author's rendition of what would happen if you used his campaign with his characters played the way he would play them.

Note from the Author: I tend to use these pages as sounding boards for ideas as well as a form of self-promotion. For my original fictions, I do most of my troping on my own files offline, because I don't want to spoil anything...as I am want to do when ranting about my stories. However, currently most of the entries were done by me as part of a way of figuring out how to summarize the setting. From here on out, however, this page will be only occasionally updated by me specifically. (Though I might run a promotion that involves troping my stuff.)

And Man Grew Proud: The world is set at least ten thousand years after a highly advanced society crumbled suddenly and left the world resource poor. the example campaign suggests the campaign setting is actually North America in the far future, but again, the implication is that that is up to individual GM decision

Compliment Backfire: Sigurd assumes that Jun is a dog because she's a good cook. Being a wolf, Jun is not amused.

Cloning Blues: Acacia as a clone of 16 year old pre-villainy Adrasteia complete with memories

Crapsack World: Adrasteia is deliberately trying to MAKE the world this because if there's plenty of chaos and evil in the world, then people won't look for her and she can avoid being brought to justice longer.

She started with sinking her homeland into a civil war that obliterated the one noble household whose loss could not be recovered from.

She's supported Elias in his rise to power, united the Hordelands under his fist.

She helped place a lunatic on the Imperial throne in the Golden Empire.

She's helped the Shogun wage an undeclared civil war while ensuring the young empress remains in a poisoned coma.

She is currently linked to a Demon Gate which occasionally cracks open and will flood open if she dies.

She likely has fingers in the Star Republic too, though the precise nature of her plan there is undetermined.

The Determinator: The Woman With No Name, who is in constant pain due to the fact her poison is constantly leaking into her system.

Wolves and Dogs, despite being genetically identical save for a trend in hair/fur colors, absolutely hate each other and refuse to admit being related.

This is especially unfortunate for Sigurd, whom the sourcebook says has trouble remembering that Jun is a wolf.

Snakes in particular are hated by everybody due to the fact that they can kill by age 10 via poison

A popular method of lynching snakes is "fanging", which is basically cutting or ripping out their fangs. The snake usually dies within a year due to their own uncontrollably leaked poison.

Bharita revere snakes as holy creatures publicly. Secretly, the Brahmin caste maintains hidden fortresses were they send female snakes who were supposed to be either executed or euphenized but were still capable of carrying a child to term.

Bharita considers all zodiacs to be born as property of one of the four castes based on their species.

The Golden Empire considers all zodiacs to be animals.

Magicians are hated even more than snakes as most people believe they choose their path rather than are born to it.

Interspecies Romance: Zodiacs and humans are genetically compatiable given one was created from the other. Children are the same species as the mother 3 out of 4 times.

Averted with the Golden Empire who consider zodiacs nothing more than animals and view those who interbreed with them as freaks.

A special note: Sigurd, a nearly 7' tall tiger zodiac is especially attracted to Dog women, having grown up with them.

Katanas Are Just Better: This attitude convinced the Ryouiki nobility to declare that no zodiac, samurai or not, is allowed to use a katana despite the Imperial Family otherwise granting equal social status. As a result, the Kitsune Court uses wakizashi and the Kikage Clan use spears.

Loveable Sex Maniac: Sigurd is mentioned in the sourcebook as having multiple children with Volstagg women. Of the example female characters, Acacia is too young for his tastes and "Sour Lady" is too fragile. This leaves Jun who is a dog and an awesome warrior which is just made of win from his point of view.

Magic A Is Magic A: The author describes magic as a very complex mixture of telepathy and telekinesis on an atomic level in one small statement in the sourcebook, but also at least implies that any particular gamemaster can run the world however he wants.

Psychic Powers: The author's explanation for True Masters and Magicians, with True Masters being people that have reached the potential of the average human/zodiac and Magicians being people with a few more genetic markers than average.

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